Power Lies Trembling - by Richard Ngo - Mind the Future

A three-book review on the game theory of political power

In a previous book review I described exclusive nightclubs as the particle colliders of sociology—places where you can reliably observe extreme forces collide. If so, military coups are the supernovae of sociology. They’re huge, rare, sudden events that, if studied carefully, provide deep insight about what lies underneath the veneer of normality around us. That’s the conclusion I take away from Naunihal Singh’s book Seizing Power: the Strategic Logic of Military Coups. It’s not a conclusion that Singh himself draws: his book is careful and academic (though much more readable than most…

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